The Christian-Muslim dialogue has exploded in recent decades into a cacophony of voices on history, politics, theology, and literary criticism, yet there remains little concentrated effort to preserve the Qur’anic voice ...

This work consists of a portfolio of creative work in the form of verse and prose poems, The Dusty Era, preceded by a thesis, ‘The Expanse: Self-Consciousness and the Transatlantic Prose Poem’, arguing for a serious analysis ...

The period from 1808 to 1829, largely neglected by those historians who have looked at the Hydrographic Office, was the crucial formative period for expansion that laid the solid foundations which later Hydrographers could ...

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Objectives: Increasing knowledge of genetics has found that a mutation to the BRCA 1 or 2 genes are associated with a high risk of developing breast cancer throughout the lifespan. A woman with this genetic ...

Court, Pierre(University of ExeterCollege of Social Sciences & International Studies, 2016-05-26)

The use of social networking sites (SNS) is a relatively new field of academic enquiry. Growing concern over adolescents’ and children’s internet use has spawned research on the possible effects of internet use on adolescent ...

Cockerill, Timothy Paul(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2013-05-29)

The following research project is split into two phases and concludes with a synthesis of both phases. The overarching aim of the research project is to explore how mainstream schools can best work with alternative providers ...

Gillard, Duncan Edward(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2011-09-05)

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Examining the views of restorative practitioners about the effects of their professional practices.
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The Youth Justice Board and the Department for Education share the common goal of reducing offending ...

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The aim of this study was to explore what the core domain of research means to consultant radiographers in clinical practice and to identify the key factors that facilitate or hinder research activity by this staff ...

Archaeologists rely on a variety of methods to study and interpret the past, one of which is experimental archaeology; this involves the replication of artefacts or past processes in order to test falsifiable hypotheses ...

In any year, one in four British adults will experience a mental disorder (Singleton, Bumpstead, O’Brien, Lee, & Meltzer, 2001), but barriers to accessing treatment remain, one being fear of stigmatization. In this study ...

This thesis draws on previous engagements between art and Geography in experimental geographies to explore relationships between artists and different forms of institutions. It focuses on experimental artists and associated ...

Imitation is considered to be an efficient method of conveying information between individuals. It is believed to be among the least common and most complex forms of animal learning. After almost a century of studying ...

This thesis presents a study into structural colours that exist in natural samples, the principle aim of which is to produce experimental methods by which these colours may be examined and evaluated. In order to achieve ...

Haji, Nafeesa Ismail(University of ExeterCollege of Social sciences and International Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 2016-05-25)

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Within the framework of experimentation and innovation in the short story, this study examines the most significant creative aspects of the Kurdish short story written in Kurmanji dialect in Bahdinan in Iraqi ...

Recent work has sought to explain the striking variations in municipal hospital provision in the 1930s by quantitative analysis. Such work has not so far provided a hypothesis which satisfactorily explains the range of ...

Humber, Frances Kate(University of ExeterCollege of Life and Environmental Sciences, Biosciences, 2015-06-22)

Small-scale fisheries (SSF) are poorly documented, yet 90% of the 120 million employed in capture fisheries work in the SSF sector and >1 billion people globally rely on fish as an important source of protein. There is a ...

Finnigan, William John Andrew(University of ExeterBiological Sciences, 2016-09-23)

Biocatalysis is a field rapidly expanding to meet a demand for green and sustainable chemical processes. As the use of enzymes for synthetic chemistry becomes more common, the construction of multistep enzyme reactions ...

Corfield, Jill Ruth(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2014-10-13)

The overall aim of this research is to explore my interest in the influences on teachers’ attitudes towards behaviours which challenge them and to illuminate my experiences and perspectives through those of others. It sets ...

Despite their central importance to the Earth system, nowhere within the literatures of Polar Studies or the Humanities does there exist a comprehensive cultural and scientific history of ice sheets that takes into ...